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Lesson
eenuary 25.Lesson-IV--Standards o
the Kingdom—Matthew 5: 3.9, 17.20
43-48. Golden Text -Blessed are^the
pure" in heart: for they shall see
God, -Matthew 5: 8,
ANALYSIS
I.-THn fEATPPUDE$, 3.9
II. JSSUS AND OLD LAW, 17-20.
IIIc THE NEW LAW Or LOVE,, 43-43.
INeeoremTION—Iilaving - sees that
Jesus came to proclaim the kingdom of
heaven, we now pass on ,o.the study'
in detail of some of he• principles of
this teaching. The Sermon an. the
Mount is the most famous of all sere
mons. Other discoveries pass and are
fo_•gotten, but this great pronounce-
ment is as fresh today as when it was
uttered, It contains much of the finest
teaching of Jesus, insomuch that some
people will say that if we can only Iive
according to the precepts of this man,
we shall 'be' perfect,, This'is, as it
were, the ethical program of `Chris-
tianity. '
I. THE BEATITUDES,. 3-9.
Vs. 3.5. The beatitudes describe the
kind of blessedness, oe happiness,
which :the true Christian is to obtain,:
and they tell of the conditions which
underlie these blessings. It is - not
easy, to give a very clear` division but
in e more er less rough way, we may
divide them into r chime . groups: The
Rest, given in vs. 3-5, deal with the
outward conditions- in which men may,
find themselves: Many of these to
whom Jesus was preaching, were poor
and anxious and destitute. They did
not belong to the rich oe comfortable
class. Many had deep •sorrow, and
little to comfort them. These might
naturally sae that :here wa no chant
for theist in the kingdom of God. The
were inclined to rega-'d.their poor con
dition as e sign of divine disapproval.
If Jesus had no message for this elan,
he would not be .a world -Saviour; for
the; poov:. and troubled always form a
large majority of the population.
Jesus does not say that poverty is, in
itself, a blessing. Blessing may come
in spite of the poverty, and sorrow.
• For. life does not consist in the abun-
dance of natural possessions. The joy
that '.Tesus brings, therefore, is inde-
pendent of worldly wealth.
Vs. 6-9. This second group brings us
from outward to inward' conditions;
and we or told that there can be ..o
"true happiness unless' the heart is
right with our neighbor and with God.
There must be righteousness, and pur-
ity.and peace. If the mind and heart
be set upon worldly ,things, and if
there are wrong desires and ambitions,
then there is no divine presence, Lie
joy.
Vs. 10, 11. We should include the
third group.:. also in our lesson, since
this ieeehe crown of all. Life without
some great object, some goal, some
passion, is not at its best, And Jesus
says that the noblest of all passions
is love for himself. He calls people to
sacrifice for his sake, and in the glow
of joy which comes from close friend-
ship with him there is that which the
world cannot give or take away. Study
these suggestive words, "for my
sake," • .
II. JESUS AND OLD LAW, 17-20.
V. 17. Jesus would inevitably en-
counter opposition from those who did
not tree with much of Isis teaching.
To theist it was ;evolutionary, seeming
to oppose the traditions of the Fath-
ers. We gather from this verse that
this opposition had become vocal, from
which we conclude that this sermon
was not given until his mission had
advanced some distance. His enemies
had said that he was opposing the law.
Accordingly Jesus says that he has not
comp to destroy either the law or the
prophets, Ice is rather the one, who
for the first trine, puts full meaning
into the law,
V. 19.. If any one teaches that the
commandments have lost their binding
fort.., or if any ono teaches the bind-
ing nature of the commandments, but
does not keep them himself, as these
Pharisees were likely doing, they such
could not belonfr to his kingdom.
V. 20. Jesus is willing to have his
teaching' tested by the Bole of conduct,
and if his followers do not show a bet-
ter result than others, he will regard
thent-as unfit for the kingdom. We.
might put the word "goodness" in
place of "righteousr-ess,» and thus
understand his statement as a chal-
lenge to itis disciples to show that
'their goodness surpasses that of the
scribes.
III. VIE NEW LAW or LOVE, 43-48.
V. 43. The verses that intervene
are given to specific examples of the
way in which Jesus reads anew Mean-
ing into old legislation; and we now
have the last of these, the law of love.
We do not find the actual .words in the
Old Testament, advocating hatred of
our enemies (see Lev, 19: 19) but the
rabbis had concluded from this pass-
age that them were no obligations
concerning those who were outside the
chosen race of Israel. It is this nar-
row, national spirit which Jesus at-
tacks. It is the privilege and duty of
the disciple of Jesus to regard all
classes as his frineds.
V. 45. To do this is to do what God
does, who gives his blessings to alI
peoplo.
- V. 46. If they love only their friends
ehey are no better than those who were
looked upon as belonging to the most
forsaken class, the publicans. For
these people also loved their friends.
V. 47. In loving their enemies they
ere becoming perfect, since they are
/ getting more and more like God.
English Manners
Mary Bordeu In Ilarper's Maga-
eine (New York): In England people
oat'o less about good Planners than
gooditorm. The English people are
in general too Insensitive and too
Molting, In curiosity to have really
good manners; for the Lack ofcari-
osity means lack of sympathy and a
wide lndifterenee to -what others feel
or think. Beteg very modest people,
or, what is the seine thing„' exoes-
eively proud but not vain, and weal.
an intense positive dislike for shov-
!ng off, their manners ou the whole
are better than one: might expect; for
ehough they don't care a rap about
” Klausing, they. don't care either about
,ahowing their displeasure, and so
probably they show little or no sigh
Of any kind, Indifference is their
Prime social quality; that It does not
make forthe gaiety of 'nations goes
without ming. •
PERSECUTION
No man ever did a work in spite of
porsscution
-thee' 'he Might not i
done tent tieeelt011 thoee eiettee 13 110
fedi 1 , 'nem .•!:
Various 1eetings
With Srnuts
I got a hint of what Smuts was an
against the moment I arrived. I Iiad.
cabled him of my coming and he sent
an orderly.to the steamer with a note
of ,welcome and inviting me to bench
with him at the House of Parliament
'the next day. In, the letter, 'among
other things, he said: "You will Rad
Chia a really interesting country, full
or curious probleuis,". How curious
they were T was soon to And out.
I called for him at his modest book -
lined office in a street behind the
Parliament Buildings and we walked
together to the House. Heretofore I
had only Been him in the uniform oe
a Lieutenant General -in the British.
Arniy. 'Now he, wore a loose -fitting
loungesuit and a'- slouch hat was
Jammed down on his head, do the
change from khaki to mufti—and few
men can stand up under this .transi-
tion without losing some_ of the char
aster of their personal appearance,
he "remained a striking figure. There
is something ,;wistful'in his face -an
indescribable look that projects itself.
not only through you but beyond. It
is not exactly pre-ocequpatiou. but a
highly developed couceil-tratiou. This
look seemed to be enhanced by the
ordeal through watch he *ace then
passing, In his springy walk Was . a
sugestiou of pugnacity. •His whole
manner was that of a man in actaun
and who exults in it. Roosevelt had
•the same characteristic but he ills -
played it with much more animation
and strenuosity.
We sat down in the crowded dining
room of. the House of Parliament
where the Prime Minister had invited
a group of Cabinet Ministers and
leading business men of Capetown.
Around us seethed a noisy swirl
which reflected the turmoil of the
South African•politioal situation. •
The luncheon wasethe first of vari-
oua meetings with Smuts. Some were
amid the tumult of debate or in the
shadow of the legislative halls, others
out in the country at-Grotte Schuur,
the Prime Minister's residence, where
-GENERAL SMUTS
Canada's recent illustrive guest as he
appeared at Toronto University to re.
calve Itis LL.D. degree.
we walked amid the gardens that
Cecil Rhodes loved, or sat in the
rooms whore .the Colossus "thought
in terms of continents." It was, a
liberal education.
Of all his Boer contemporaries he
is the most cosmopolitan. Nor is this
due entirely to the fact that he went
to Cambridge where he lett a record
for scholarship, and speaks English
with a decided accent. It Is because
he has what might be called world
sense.
Smuts is one of the best -read men
I have met. He seems to know some-
thing about everything, Ile ranges
from Joseph Conrad to Kant, from
Booker Washington to Tolstoi. His-
tory, fiction, travel, biography, have
all come within his ken. I told hem
I proposed to go from Capetown to
the Congo and possibly to Angola.
His face Iighted up. "Alt, yes," he
said, "1 have read aII about these
countries. I can see them before me
in my mind's eye,"
One night at dinner at Groote
Sahuur we had sweet potatoes. He
asked me If they were cowmen. in
America. I replied that down in Ken-
tucky, where I was born, one of the
favorite Nogro dishes was "'possum
and Sweet potatoes." He took me up
at once, saying:
"011, yes, I have read about'"pos-
sum pie' in Joel Chandler Barite'
books." Then he proceeded to tell
me what a great institution " 8r'er
Rabbit" was.
We touched on German poetry and
I quoted two lines that I considered
beautiful. When I rbiharked that I
thought Heine was the author he cor-
rected me by proving that they were
written by Schiller.—Isaac F. Mat'-
cusson, iu "An African Adventure."
Speeding Dots
Means Television
Hungarian Makes Advances
Toward "Lookies" on
Radio
1
Bulapest—The Hungarian technical
expert, Koloman Tihanyl, who has
been resident in Berlin some Years'.
gives interesting details in. the local
press regarding hie discoveries in
the/sphere of television,
1V1r, Tlhanyi maintains that in fu-
ture pictures projected' by television
will be perfectly reproduced, since he
leas suoceedesi in producing 40,000
light dots to 1.6 of a second,' instead
of -2e00 in the same period hitherto,
and. 'has, prgclaced cathode rays, fine
as hairs; whose luminosity or phos-
phoreseence Is one' hundredfold in-
creased,
"Also 50 claims his newly sou-
structed apparatus can completely
overcome'•statist, or atmospheric 'in-
terierences..,, Tlhanyi added at he
had been ,asked by one governtnent
ie apply file invention t0 'eognteract-
ing an air belt 'through. which 'air-
ore.it could not pass, The inventor
refused to eelargo .,'epee the latter
toe• ee es lie is now . tegotiatioe
The Reign of Terror
In United,States
Views of American Papers on
a Situation: Which We in
Canada Can't Under.
stand •..
THE RACKETEERS
When' Chicago police .bullets' ride.
dled to death three'gangsters- seeking
to extort $10,000 tribute from the
president of the,•:Tire and Rubber
Workers' Union, Chicao, reportel.•
explained that the' racketeers were
out for this new line of business be-
cause ;'bootlegging has grown too
hazardous," and revenues from. -game"-
ling and vice have been Limited.
Police tapping of ,wires leading
from the headquarters Of the "Scar
face Al" Capone, "Bugs" Moran, and
other gangs, had caught conversa-
tions which aim said to leave revealed
pIots to mulct business organizations
of millions of dollars, and both New
York and Chicago police .forces plan
co-operative measures against the
.gangsters who link lW for working
our principal cittea. ,
The:. fatal mistake • of the Chicago
Mime who fell into the police trap'
gars .a dramatic news -story revela-
tion to the public of the latest extor-
tion game, and further emphasized
the import of the conference just
then being held between Police Com-
inissioner Grover A- Whalen of New
York and Police Commissioner Wil-
liam Russell in Chicago( Following
repeated threats to tato' President
Power's "for a ride" if his Rubber
Workers' Upton did not come across
with $10,000, Powers notified the po-
lice department of the arrival of the
first of three -gunmenat his oiSce to
collect, and squad lire shot them all
to death—William (Dinky) Quan, ex -
bartender, William Wilson, expugll-
let,, and William Ryan, a former beer -
runner. •-
"Chicago police are not ofted can-
didates for praise," remarks the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, "but they did
a good day's work;. they talked to the
racketeers in the only language they
understand—lead bullets." And the
Chicago Daily News moralizes:
"Racketeering flourishes, only where
weakness, timidity, and lank of ef-
fective co-operation between the vie-
tines
iatiros and the agencies of law make et
relatively safe. The way to fight the
racketeer is to reslst him intelligent-
ly,
ntelligently, to make no compromise with him,
to inform the State's attorney and
the commissioner of police of any
threat or lawless overture."
Nevertheless, here is only one in-
cident that entails further revelations
of the terrifying racketeering situa-
tion to evhich the prase ,gives much
space. Chicago. Police Department
information is- said to include a list
of more than thirty labor unions from
which one gaug planned to collect—
thus extending the common method
of gouging tailoring establishments,
laundries, restaurants, elm, by gang
leaders who intend to "muscle in" for
control of bigger organizations and
businessesto secure a share of the
receipts. The secretary of theiehicage
Employers' Association estimates
that gangster preying on.legiUnlate
business already nets $130,000,000 a
Year, and 'eke fact that the Ohicago
Coal Merchants' Association refuses
to negotiate a new contract with the
Coal Teamsters' Union, so long as as
alleged thug and ex -convict continues
to be the Tinton's business agent,
brings up another concrete racketeer-
ing issue. Says the Chicago Tribune:
"It is to the credit of the coal mer-.
olients that they, have dared to raise
the issue and defy the racketeer;
theirs is the first step toward freeing
the community of the plague of viol-
ence and blackmail which has made
Chicago notorious the world over."
Police Commissioner Whalen is
quoted in the press as saying that he
expects fat reaching results from his
conferences with Commissioner Rus-
sell, and pledges unprecedented 'era
operation from the New York Depart-
ment. Exchange of special squads of
detectives and of evidence in racket-
eering cases will be pitted against
the pooling of gunmen by gangsters
oe the two cities. Co-operation in the
use of ballistics to identify weapons,
as well as finger -prints to identify the
criminals, is promised. Commission•
er Whalen adds:
"Thu greatest flaw in the American
legal system is pardoniug.judges,
long delays, and suspensions of Sen-
tence, whore the defendants are
known to be hardened criminals, .•
" `leacketeerhtg' is the most vital of
our police problems. Business men
Lire losing miflions, Most of them
won't fight their own battles, bat pay
tribute to avoid trouble, The system
aleo leads the gangsters to fight
among themselves; they are covetous
of the spoils of the 'rackets,' and they
kill their competitors.'
The prospects hf a greater inter-
city gang war, according to news-
paper reports from Chicago, will in-
crease as soon as Capone, dictator of
Chicago's underworld, is released
from jail itt Philadelphia. Police and
court authorities are represented. as
convinced that the Moran gangsters
aspire to dominate Chicago rackets
and thirst ,to revenge the massacre
of seven of their men on last St, Val-
entine's Day. It is farther declared
that, through evidence obtained by a
Chicago woman, Feileral narcotic
agents -Have found the trail of the
world's largest cling oloPits—a synth
tate'extending'from New York to, th0'
west coast, subdivided. Into three,
groat rings, with headquarters
and the lower East and West sides,
Harlem, the Times Square: District,
New York City,' and operating con-
cealed factories, in New Jersey,. A
41111161' line -of forcing tribute from the
'stage is reported in: the sitape et prof-
:baring
rof•,'faring gangster;"protection" to actors
and actresses against wreoking crews
of gunmen, for prl4es ranging 119 to
$s,000r
Meantime sharp controversy rages
in the Chicago press over alleged Jae
8lfl31eudes'-or the Cook 'County Ovine,
ilial Courts, voiced. by President
re, d Temeeli of the tlhhtnge Crime
Where Modern Methods and loderpistie Ark
Urates, Life' and Work of
A REMARKABLE PHOTO OF THE NEW AIR GIANT
Britain's new giant dirigible, R-100, discharging water ballast as it approaches mooring after trial iligit5.
Commission who resigned as special
prosecutor en the staff of the State's
Attorney. Aftera bitter exchange of
Personal criticism' with a judge pre-
siding in the case he brought against
nine men five of then. Members of the
Pollee Department loused of com-
plicity la the slaying of a negro at
the 1938 preliminaries Mr. Loe5eh
quit the case and resigned his oilice,
alleging partizanship and official sup-
port of crime. To other criticisms by
the Crime Commission charging de-
layed trials and indifferent, adminis-
tration, judges, of the bench reply
that the Commission. has degenerated
into a mere fault-finding, scolding
body, and that the court conditions
"wilt compare more than favorably
with those in, any jurisdiction in the
civilized world."
The Chicago Journal of Commerce
remarks that "Chicago still has vital-
ity enough to yell when it is rob-
bed, New York takes its crime as a
matter of course."
Empire Bonds
Trade Between West Indies
and Canada Shows Im-
mense Growth
Toronto,—In 30 years elle total
trade, imports and exports, between
Canada and the West? Indies, has in-
creased from $2,500,000 to $45,000,000,1
according to Col. J, C. Brown, assi5-!
taut to the president of the Canadian
National Steamships, itt an address
before the annual convention of the
.Eastern Canada Fruit and Vegetable
Jobbers here.
The total value of tropical 2ruits,
cocoanuts and "out of season" vege-
tables imported into Canada for the THE SCHOOL -BOY KiNG
year ending November 30, 1929, am- +( Little King Michael of Roumania
punted to $31,500,000, he said. Five
Canadian National vessels maintained seen in the gardens at Cotroceuf
a weekly freight and passenger ser Palace.
vice between Canadian ports and the "'
islands. DUTY
Prior to the inauguration of this Duty is far more the n love. It ie
service, he stated, there were no ban- the upholding law through which the
ands coning into Canada from the weakest become, strong,withoutwlitch
way of the United States. During Indies except in small quantities g all strength is unstable as water. No
character, however harmoniously
coven mors r of direct importation framed and gloriously gifted, can be
ofbananas. Canada has received 2,500,009 stems. complete without this abiding prince,
of pie; it is the cement which binds the
Colonel Brown spoke of the rapidly whole moral edifice together, without
increasing development of citrus fruit which all power, goodness, intellect,
culture in the British West Indies and
the advantages Canada might have by1 truth, liapp[ness, love itself, can have
buying oranges and grapefruit from
that part of the Empire. Ile declared
tho West Indio produced 2 or export
about 500,000 bushels of fresh "out of
season" vegetables a year.
"To use a newly coined phrase," he
said, "the West Indies are becoming
Canada -minded; and I believe that
Canada is becoming West India-ntind-
ed. Our products and theirs are abso-
lutely complementary and there is no
competition whatsoever between our-
selves and theist."
A BEGINNING
Lot every dawn of morning be to
you as the beginning of life, and
every setting sun be to you as its
close; then let every one oR these
short lives leave its sure record of
some kindly thing done for others,
some goodly strength or knowledge
gained for yourselves.—Ruskin.
"Prohibition has raised the ridic-
ulous to the sublime and dragged the
sublime to the ridiculous." -Rupert
Hughes.
no permanence, but all the fabric of
existence crumbles away from under
us, and leaves us at last sitting la the
midst of ruin, astonished at our own
desolation.—Mrs. Jameson,
• CONSECRATED LIVES
God's sun shines over us; the day
is ours. Shake off the shadows of the
night. Look at the dead yesterdays
only to se their final meaning as they
lie still in the pitiless white light
of the irrevocable. But then turn to
to -day; and maize every sin and every
agony au education, take the past up
into the spirit, and offer the one
atonement--consecratod living now.-
Edward Reward Griggs,
"Fashion follows the figure as trade
follows the flag." .Jacques Worth.
Wool ought to be cheap this yea'
in view of the large number of lambe
fleeced.
"Ability without enthusiasm — and
You have a rifle without a bullet:
Lord Dewar.
• No. More Warr?. -
Britain the Bridge Between
the Old World and the
New
By Lt,-Comandar the Hon. 3. 151.
Kenworthy, R.N.
The nineteen -twenties saw the slow
liquidation of the effects of the Great
War and the beginnings of economic
restoration to make good its losses.
I, prophecy that the nineteen -thirties
will see great strides forward in the
better organization of international
relations.
The Nineteen -Twenties saw a gen-
eration in the saddle to whom the
Great War was such a poignant mem-
ory that they were scarcely able to
appreciate its lessons. For example,
the leading European nations were
still inclined to pin their faith to
armaments for their defence.
But there are already signs that a
new spirit and a new generation will
climb Into the saddle in its turn dur-
ing the decade aheadThere has
been an extraordinary revulsion of
public opinion against war and the
causes of war the world over.
Towards "United States of Europe."
We commence the new decade with
a vitally important Conference be-
tween the live principal Naval
Powers on sea armaments. Naval
arrnantents have been more fruitful
of national rivalries and misunder-
standings in the past than land arma-
ments.
For navies may constitute a threat,
which must be answered, on all the
Seven Seas. Land armaments only
threaten nations on either tilde of the
frontier's, their close neighbors. If
agreement can be reached for the
drastic reduction of sea armaments
by mutual agreement it will open the
way for a reduction of laud and air
forces. •
There is a growing movement in
Europe, tslich is particularly hopeful,
against the extremes of ...,ationaiism.
The next ten yews will undoubtedly
see the first steps towards the ideal
of a "cited States of Europe" in the
putting down of artificial barriers be-
tween, the nations, in the realization
that Europe, as a unit, can stand by
Itself, but that It cannot possibly do
so as a conglomeration of hostile and
warring powers.
Our Glorious Destiny
Aviation is bound to make great
strides forward. By the end of an-
other tett years It will be the recog-
nized means of transport for- swift
passage over long distances, And as
aviation develops, not only will it
bring the peoples closes together, as
wireless has done already, but it will
be an ever-present warning of the
horrors that another great war would
b-nng in its train,
I am au optimist, and I believe the
common sense oe the people, no less
Man tate demands oe the taxpayers
for econoneies and the urge of all for
peace, will not only carry us through
this coming decade without a war,
but will make the possibility of an-
othor great conflict + the future un-
dikely.
nngland and America will draw
closer together; but this does not
mean that we must draw away from
our Continental neighbors or from
the rest of the Empire. We have been
the cultural and commercial bridge
in the past .between the Old World
and the Nov. We cart be the political
bridge in the future.
An Idea Can Be Formed From This Picture of the Trade on the Great Lakes
NEW UBtei r LAKES 0004( Oltt SUPERIOR'S SHORES •
Coal deck -at Mi0hlpleoten harbor en take Superior, recently btitit by Algoma Central Rallway-
Pasteur° Reviewed'
World Lost Painter lint Gain
ed Greatest Human
Pathologist
ESTROYED THEORIC
"What a'pity he has buried himselt
amid a heap 'of ' ehomietry when he '
might have made .a name for himself
In painting," an old woman once said
of Louis Pasteur,
But what the world lost as a painter
it gained ag one 02 the world's great-
est human patliologists, eccording to
Dr. 11. C, Harrison, professor of bac
teriology at McGill University, speak'
ing on "Louis Pasteur—His Life and
His Work,"
"In every country and in every
age," ler Harrison. declared, "the
realty great men are;few. In the 19th
century in France, If you except Na'
poleon, who really belongs to the
18th,, there aro two who stand out,
Hugo, and Pasteur. While Hugo had
a greater influence on his generation,
Pasteur has had more influence sub.
sequently in tho progress of the
world,"
Sketching- his early history, Dr,
Harrison told of Pasteur, showing an
aptitude both as a painter and as a
cheiuist.,
Demonstrated Findings
After making interesting contribn-
tions to the molecular theory, as it
then existed, Pasteur fought a battle
INS' the spontaneous generation cot-
erie, who believed one could generate
life without previous life. One scion.
List even told him that mice could be
generated by putting 'dirty rags in e
jar. These folks he put to rout wheu
he demonstrated his findings before a
board of arbitration.
Pasteur then went to work on the
subject • of fermentation and made the
dicta that them was no' fermentation
without organism and every fermen-
tation had its particular organisms.
What he discovered about wine and
its formation he passed ou to milk
and to -day, Dr. Harrison stated, every
bottle delivered to the door was pas'
teurized. Pasteurization was the pro
cess of heating a substance to' a point
less than its boiling point, so as to
destroy the tubercular bacilli without
injuring the substance it boiled.
No sooner had the 'battle of liquid
disinfection been won till he turned
to the silk worm, ravages upon which
had reduced the revenue to Franke
from 120,090,000 francs annually to
5,000,000, this within two years. it
took two years "to win this victory,
but the silkworm was brought back.
Turning to beer, he devised some
of the best brews the greatest brew-
eries ever turned out by studying dif-
ferent forms of fermentation.
Revolutionized Surgery
In surgery too, he revolutionized
things, It had been said before Pas-
teur's time that surgery 'was a neces-
sary evil, gangereno and sotto pois-
oning were rampant, and "a pinprick
was the open road to death.' Thanks
to Pasteur, this condition was revolu-
tionized, and to -clay, Dr. Harrison
said, the body could be entered with
complete safety.
Anthrax too was attacked by the
pathologist, and from that he learned
the principles of vaccination. Ile dist
covered that if under certain condi-
tions the disease was introduced into
the body, the weakened germs would
only give the host a mild attack and
ultimately give him strength to fight
off its recurrent ravages. On rabies
he went to work in 1880, found out it
infected the brain and nervous parts,
dried infected chords in the body he
had secured from dead beasts, and
used Ude as an antitoxin. From this
he went to diphtheria, and did great
preventive work there. ,
'Some day he will be a legend," Dr.
Harrison concluded. "He started as
a chemist and ended up a human.
pathologist. He reduced grave
scourges to small proportions. And
all his great discoveries and great
works were done after his paralytic
stroke, a blow in itself which would
have finished most men forever."
Saving Humanity
The Work of the Childrens'
Aid Society is Building
for the Future
I5 is a mistake to suppose that the'
Society's. Shelter is a public institute
for'the training of neglected children.
It la not in any sense a permanent
Moine. It is much better than that. A
more charitable and a far more en-
lightened method is adopted than
herding young children in a public in-
stitution, with legal restraints, where
all their associates aro of their own
class and where they are without the
kindly personal attention of a mother.
The children are not detained any;
Ionger than is necessary to instil good'
habits and to secure foster homes fort
them. But finding homes is not the
only work- undertaken by the Sotiety.
The main object is not to remove the
child but to seek by every means pose
Bible to induce parents to train their,
children properly and trent twee;
kindly, When neglect oe hr'uelty is;
reported, the Superintn'ient visits thee'
parents, r0aso}t5 tenth them, urgfpg,
1 them to do better, If after 'repeated'
Were eeettsegg l„eoement is aptly;, ilii'
r inmVx,yy , re
are summo/0e bre the toilet enS
warned that unless they reform, their
children will be taken from them. H
the pito seems hopeless, the court wilt
at onee commit the children as we.ree
of the Society. 'There is nothing speer.
tacular in all this, as there would be
in housing a largo number in a public
instithtion But there is much truer
philanthropy, resulting in far deeper
and mole abiding good.
"Life, like a great snake shedding
its coat, constantly renews itself."—'
Thelma Mann.
• Balhlhlc thea of something thou
ougltest to do, and go and -8o 1t, if
it es but ti1e sweeping of a room, cr
tie'prapa'saaon of a ueai, of a viac
to a friend•—C,eorge eirceDeru:elhlt